Election and education officials in Maguindanao are considering the assignment of soldiers and cops as poll tellers for the 2016 elections in the province, particularly in towns listed as “hot spots” or “areas of concern.”

Some 200 Moro families evacuated to safer places in Pigcawayan town in North Cotabato after two warring clans exchanged fires Monday. Both clans belong to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), reports said.